Background*

Mr. Washington Z. Sycip is the Founder of Jollibee Foods Corp., since 1946 and serves as its Independent Advisor. Mr. Sycip is the Founder of Asian Institute of Management. He serves as a Senior Adviser at Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company. He serves as an Advisor in Asia. He is the Founder and serves as an Executive Officer of SyCip, Gorres, Velayo & Co. where he turned it from a one-man office in 1946 to the biggest professional services provider in the country today. ... Mr. Sycip serves as Senior Adviser to the Board for Asian Terminals Inc. He serves as a Senior Adviser of Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company. He served as President of the International Federation of Accountants from 1982 to 1985. Mr. Sycip has been the Chairman and Director of Cityland Development Corporation at Cityland Group of Companies and City & Land Developers Inc. since June 13, 2001. He serves as the Chairman of Lufthansa Technik Philippines Inc-JV. He serves as the Chairman of the Board at STEAG State Power, Inc. He serves as the Chairman at Macroasia Corp, , and State Investment Trust, Inc. He has been the Chairman of Lufthansa Technik Philippines, Inc., since July 2000. Mr. Sycip serves as the Honorary Chairman and Director of Global Business Holdings Inc., and Global Business Bank Inc. He serves as the Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees and Board of Governors of the Asian Institute of Management. He serves as a Director of ABS-CBN Foundation, Inc. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Banco De Oro Unibank, Inc. He serves as a Member of Board of Overseers at Columbia Business School. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at ICCP Venture Partners, Inc. He serves as an Independent Director of Philippine Investment Management, Inc. He has been a Director of Macroasia Corp. since August, 1997. He has been an Independent Director at Lopez Holdings Corporation., since April 30, 1997. He serves as Director of PHINMA group and State Land Group, Philippine Hotelier, Inc., The Philippine American Life and General Insurance Company, Philequity Management Inc. and Systems Standards, Inc. He has been an Independent Director of Philippine National Bank since May 30, 2000 and Highlands Prime Inc. since January 4, 2002. He serves as a Member of the Board of Counselors of Asia Mezzanine Capital Group. He has been an Independent Director at Belle Corporation since May 20, 1996. He has been a Director of First Philippine Holdings Corp., since 1997. He has been a Member of the Advisory Board at JG Summit Holdings, Inc., since August 2001. Mr. Sycip is a Member of the International Advisory Board of the Darby Asia Investors (HK) Limited. He is a Member of the International Advisory Board of the American International Group. He served as a Director of Philippine Airlines, Inc. He served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Board of Governors of Asian Institute of Management. He served as the Chairman of 2GO Group Inc. (Formerly Aboitiz Transport System Corporation and William Gothong & Aboitiz Inc.) since 1996 until December 28, 2010. He served as the Chairman of SGV Group until 1996. He also served as the Honorary Chairman of the Euro-Asia Centre, INSEAD Fountainbleau from 1981 to 1988. Mr. Sycip served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Conference Board, Inc. He has been a Director of LT Group, Inc. since July 9, 2013. He has been an Independent Director of Century Properties Group Incorporated since July 2011. He has been an Independent Director for Metro Pacific Investments Corp., since August 4, 2011. He has been an Independent Director of East Asia Power Resources Corporation since July 2011. He has been a Member of the Advisory Board at Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company since January 25, 2011. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at BDO Unibank Inc. Mr. Sycip has been a Director of PAL Holdings, Inc. since October 23, 2014. Mr. Sycip served as a Director of PAL Holdings, Inc. Mr. SyCip served as the Chairman of Senior Advisers of Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. He served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Golden Hope Plantations Berhad from April 21, 1997 to August 29, 2003. Mr. Sycip served as an Independent Director of 2GO Group Inc. from 1996 to December 28, 2010. He served as a Director of PhilPlans Inc. He served as a Director of Manila Electric Co. since August 1996. He served as Member of the International Advisory Board of Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Sycip served as a Member of Board of Overseers of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, New York and also served as a Board Member of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at University of Pennsylvania from 1983 to 2000 and an Honorary Life Trustee of the Asia Society in New York. He served as a Member of the International Advisory Board of the Chase Manhattan Bank from 1984 to 2000. Mr. Sycip is also a Member of the Board of Overseers of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He holds Directorships with the Philippines’ Council of Foreign Relations, the Conference Board, the Asia Society and the US-Asean Council for Business and Technology. He was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Melbourne (Doctor of Laws), the University of the Philippines (Doctor of Laws), the De La Salle University (Doctor of Philosophy in Financial Management), the University of Santo Tomas (Doctorate Degree in Accounting Education) and the Iligan Institute of Technology, Mindanao State University (Doctorate Degree in Development Management). He received the Management Man of the Year conferred by the Management Association of the Philippines and Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding. Mr. Sycip holds a Master’s of Science in Commerce from Columbia University, New York and a Bachelors of Science in Commerce from University of Santo Tomas, Philippines.

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